The costs of suboptimal breastfeeding in Ontario, Canada, and potential healthcare resource impacts from improving rates: a pediatric health system costing analysis

Table 3 Results from sensitivity analyses for exclusive breastfeeding at discharge and initiation rates, US $ million, 2019 prices

		Varying treatment costs			Varying disease odds ratio
		Mean estimate	Low estimate	High estimate	Mean estimate	Low estimate	High estimate
Lower respiratory infection ^a	Discharge rate	4.3	1.5	119.6
Lower respiratory infection ^a	Initiation rate	0.971	0.341	26.9
Gastrointestinal infection ^a	Discharge rate	26.6	20.5	228
Gastrointestinal infection ^a	Initiation rate	5.9	4.6	51.4
Acute otitis media ^a	Discharge rate	3.6	3.2	72.4
Acute otitis media ^a	Initiation rate	0.830	0.739	16.3
Necrotizing enterocolitis ^a	Any BF at 6 months	2.4	1.6	3.5
Necrotizing enterocolitis ^a	Initiation rate	0.543	0.378	0.789
Childhood ^bacute lymphoblastic leukemia	Any BF rate at discharge				0.5	0.8	0.3
Childhood ^bacute lymphoblastic leukemia	Initiation rate				1.1	1.2	0.8
Child obesity	Discharge rate	10.4	8.7	2.3	10.4	12.0	8.8
Child obesity	initiation rate	2.6	2.2	3.1	2.6	3.4	2.0
Child asthma	Discharge rate	26.1	16.2	27.7	26.1	30.3	22.2
Child asthma	Initiation rate	6.5	4.0	6.9	6.5	8.3	5.1

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